Attacking RFID systems

摘要: A great number of hackers end up working in the security departments of IT and telecommunications companies. In other words, the best way of making a system secure is knowing how it can be attacked. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is no different from any other technology, so the possible attacks on it should be studied in depth. e extent of an attack can vary considerably; some attacks focus on a particular part of the system (eg, the tag), whereas others target the whole system. Although there are references to such attacks in a number of publications, a rigorous study has not been made of the subject until now. We examine, in this chapter, the main threats to RFID security. First, we look at data and location privacy. Although these are the risks most often referred to in the literature, there are other equally important problems to consider too. RFID systems are made up of three main components (tag, reader …